zaterdag 12 oktober 2013

altered states

In this 1980 sci-fi film, William Hurt
plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true
role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of
mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a
sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic drugs, Jessup
hopes to explore different levels of human consciousness, but instead is
devolved into an apelike monster. Director Ken Russell helmed Altered
States from a script by Paddy Chayefsky, who adapted his own novel of the same name.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned
that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal
because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models
of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the
possibility that everything you know is wrong.” ―Terence McKenna